This month’s new releases are all about raw emotion and messy transformations. No one said becoming your better self was going to be clean and easy—and these artists drive home that point. Check out these new mixes to see if you can find the musical motivation you’ve been searching for:

This month’s new music is all about owning it—whether that refers to your Gucci cowboy hat, your juice, or your darkest tendencies. Allow these lovable bad boys and girls of country, rock, pop, and rap to inspire you to reach your fitness goals one way or another:

Here are eight cooldown tracks you might want to consider adding to the end of your next class playlist:

By the 1970s, the fitness fad that started in the ’60s had gained momentum and become a full-on craze. People were running in the streets, pumping iron on the beach, and disco dancing in the clubs. Luckily, the soundtrack of the decade kept pace with the movement, thanks to mind-boggling hits from Queen, groovy tunes from the Jackson 5, and catchy dance songs by ABBA.

We’ve taken thousands of those hits from the ’70s and remixed them into energized, high-BPM bangers suitable for your next group fitness class. Here are a few of our favorite ’70s songs for your next fitness class, sure to provide an amplified dose of nostalgia.

Cue the air horns—we’ve just dropped another round of beats. This new batch of fitness remixes features a heavy dose of underdog empowerment, with just a dash of psycho and a generous garnish of bass drops. Freshen up your next class by adding a few of these remixes to your playlist!

Music is everything in a group fitness class. From the members to the instructors, we all know just how critical the right playlist  is to shaping the experience by invoking a mood and amplifying the intensity of a class. However, when it comes to overall motivation, beats per minute (BPM) is king.

When the beat is on point, the body can’t help but move. Combined with a series of well-choreographed movements, the right beat will have your students finding themselves not just in a fitness class, but in an experience they can’t get enough of. Finding that sweet spot where tempo—or beats per minute (BPM)—and the flow of the class meet, however, is where the skill of the fitness professional comes into play.

As you know, music can make or break your class and the right music app can save you time and make the job of pulling together a great playlist easy and fun. The best APPs provide easy downloading, playlist creation, gapless playback, tempo adjustment, timers, and more.  

Every fitness instructor has an opinion about which music apps deliver and which don't, but you should have the knowledge to make up your own mind.